Category Archives: Chair’s Announcements

I hope that your fall semester/quarter is off to a positive start. We are in good shape as a section with 804 members, enough to sustain our allocation for five sessions at the 2016 annual ASA meeting. However, please keep actively recruiting. Less than 800 members results in a loss of a session.

I want to thank all of you who volunteered to serve on the Membership Committee. Shortly, the Chair of that committee will be in touch with you to discuss ideas to increase our membership and the diversity of the section.

Here are some announcements for early August. But first: a reminder that our section day is Sunday, August 17, which will include our section sessions, roundtables, business meeting, and reception. Our reception will be held at 7 pm at the Serrano Hotel, on the second floor, above the Jasper’s bar, across the street from the Hilton. It is listed in the ASA conference program as starting at 7:30, but it will start earlier. In my next message, I will include links for all the sessions, which are currently listed in our newsletter. http://cbsm-asa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/39-1-critical-mass.pdf

Here are some announcements for the end of the month. Please note that our section day is Sunday, August 17, which will include all our section sessions and roundtables, as well as our business meeting and reception. Our reception will be held at 7 pm at the Serrano Hotel, on the second floor, above the Jasper’s bar, across the street from the Hilton.

Here are the results of the recent election and the deliberations of the awards committees. Congratulations to the election winners and my thanks to everyone who stood for election! Congratulations to the award winners! And great thanks to the committee members who read many, many excellent submissions!

Attached to this message is the latest edition of CriticalMass Bulletin. My very great thanks to the CM editors Melissa Wooten and Michelle Smirnova! They did an excellent job of editing an issue with interesting discussions and extensive information about CBSM activity at the upcoming ASA Meeting in San Francisco. Please note that our section day is Sunday, which will include all our section sessions as well as our business meeting and reception. Melissa is stepping down after this issue. On behalf of the section and the previous chairs, I thank Melissa Wooten for her excellent work over the past few years with the newsletter! Michelle is staying on, and we are looking for a volunteer to join her in editing the next issue. Also, please vote in the ASA elections, if you have not already, as the ballot closes June 1. Below are some important announcements for late May.

Here are some important announcements for early May. Please pay close attention to the call from the CBSM Mentoring Committee for tenured volunteers. Also, please vote in the ASA elections, if you have not already. My great thanks to the Nominations Committee for producing an excellent slate of candidates and to the candidates for agreeing to serve the section!

If you are interested, please propose or submit a short essay (500-700 words) on collective behavior or social movement topics to be part of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section newsletter, Critical Mass. CBSMnews@gmail.com If you have not visited the new section website where our newsletter is hosted, please check it out: http://cbsm-asa.org/category/critical-mass/

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The ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) was created in 1980 to foster the study of emergent and extra-institutional social forms and behavior, particularly crowds and social movements. Our interests run from disasters and riots to rumors and panics; from popular culture to strikes, revivals and revolutions. With over 800 members, CBSM is one of the ASA's largest and most active sections.